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June 19, 2007 at 20:25:33

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Emergency Anti War Convention - Philadelphia

by Michael Bonanno     Page 1 of 3 page(s)

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“Come senators, congressmenPlease heed the call

Don’t stand in the doorway

Don’t block up the hall

For he who gets hurt

Will be he who has stalled

There’s a battle outside

And it’s ragin’

It’ll soon shake your windows

And rattle your walls

For the times they are a changin’.” – Bob Dylan, 1963 

That’s right, folks, nineteen hundred and sixty-three.  I was thirteen years old and I was told that the big bad communists in North Vietnam just shot at one of our destroyers.  I was told that, if we didn’t fight back, the North Vietnamese were going to take over Democratic South Vietnam and then Laos, Cambodia, Burma, The Philippines and even New Zealand and Australia would fall! 

After misleading the American people about the phantom attack on the American destroyer Maddox in The Gulf of Tonkin, Lyndon Johnson went so far as to proclaim, “If we quit Vietnam, tomorrow we'll be fighting in Hawaii and next week we'll have to fight in San Francisco.” 

My god, people, what in the hell does this sound like to you!  Does this not reek of “if we don’t fight them over there, we’ll have to fight them over here.”? 

What I wasn’t told when I was thirteen was that the very same commander who reported being attacked by the North Vietnamese in The Gulf Of Tonkin on August 4, 1964, Captain John Herrick, retracted his original report after further investigation. 

However, Lyndon Johnson, getting all he needed with the first, erroneous report, ignored Herrick’s correction and the rest, as they say, is one goddamned sad history. 

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Song sample for January, 2009 Make One More Person Cry from the cd Flameland.

Michael Bonanno is a published poet, essayist and musician who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Some of his poetry can be found at The Poetry Corner at OpEdNews.He is an associate editor for OpEdNews. 

Bonanno is a political progressive, not a Democratic Party apologist. He believes it's government's job to help the needy and that leaving the people's well being to the so called "private sector" is social suicide.His CDs may be purchased at CD Baby. .  

 

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JackN is a retired phyicist living in Delaware County Pennsylvania.
JackNJackN is a retired phyicist living in Delaware County Pennsylvania.

Slug it out, guys.

The elites that plan and execute our societies and wars love it when the toothless (Bonnanno) and the mindless ("war") slug it out, bleating loudly while they do it. They should both be closely examining all the implications behind Emma Goldman's statement, "If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal."

by JackN (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 28 comments) on Wednesday, June 20, 2007 at 10:22:20 AM
 

I am a retired civil servant. I was an electronics technician.
BarkerI am a retired civil servant. I was an electronics technician.

stop war

Dear Michael Bonanno,

I voted Democrat for Congress, Libertarian/Green for Senate Nov. 7. I am disappointed the Democrats have done nothing.
I am a Rightest. You are right that the private sector is not taking care of society's needs. Alan Keyes says that we have a responsibility to serve our fellow man, and if we do not fulfill our private duty it will be done publicly.
Conservatives are beginning to realize the Republican Party no longer serves the country. The fastest growing party is the Constitution Party. The dark horse in the Right is Ron Paul, who is a Republican in name only. He is opposed to the illegal wars.
We can work together to end the madness of President Bush. Lefists can support the Green Party - if Al Gore had not committed the unpardonable sin of running against Ralph Nader and ran with him he would be president. Rightests can support the Constitution Party. Centrists can support the Libertarian Party.
Is it unfortunate that Al Gore lost the presidency. What is truly tragic is that Americans have realized the truth about Joe Lieberman - he is actually campaigning for Republicans!

by Barker (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 120 comments) on Wednesday, June 20, 2007 at 1:33:11 PM
 

Song sample for January, 2009 Make One More Person Cry from the cd Flameland. Michael Bonanno is a published poet, essayist and musician who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Some of his poetry can be found at The Poetry Corner at OpEdNews.He is an associate editor for OpEdNews.  Bonanno is a political progressive, not a Democratic Party apologist. He believes it's government's job to help the needy and that leaving the people's well being to the so called "private sector" is social suicide....

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Michael BonannoSong sample for January, 2009 Make One More Person Cry from the cd Flameland. Michael Bonanno is a published poet, essayist and musician who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Some of his poetry can be found at The Poetry Corner at OpEdNews.He is an associate editor for OpEdNews.  Bonanno is a political progressive, not a Democratic Party apologist. He believes it's government's job to help the needy and that leaving the people's well being to the so called "private sector" is social suicide....

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I Don't Mind Being Wrong, Just Don't Attack Me

Dear Mr. Beach,

I've removed your comment.

I really would rather not have been the editor to remove it as it's my article. I didn't want it to look like a conflict of interest or that I merely delete a comment if it doesn't agree with my point of view.

I am the person who, in fact, did flag your comment hoping that another editor would delete it.

As that didn't happen, I finally deleted it, although people have had the chance to view your comment.

If I could find contact information for you, I'd have sent you an email, but I can not find any. If you want to find out why I deleted your comment, feel free to contact me.

JackN., I actually like Emma Goldman's quote, but my favorite is Big Bill Haywood's quote, "The workers are more powerful with their hands in their pockets than all the property of the capitalists..."

However, I'm not really sure what Goldman's quote has to do with my article. In fact, there are people on this site that have been waiting forever for Congress to recognize their attempt to call an Article V Convention. That's quite laughable as, if there's any organization that doesn't want the people to organize, it's Congress.

The Emergency Anti War Convention is not waiting for the permission of the politicians.

I mean, can you imagine The Wobblies waiting for permission from the bosses before they organized? Laughable.

Thank you,

Michael Bonanno

by Michael Bonanno (98 articles, 19 quicklinks, 24 diaries, 130 comments) on Saturday, June 23, 2007 at 8:36:10 PM
 

 

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